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...covered by the Sound where the Peninsula shore and the shore of the mainland are close-the famed, fabled Narrows at Tacoma, 85 miles from the mouth of the Sound, where the surging water boils through a deep passage, a little short of a mile wide. No one can swim the Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic views-the dark green evergreens and the far peaks of the Olympics above the opposite shore, the wide sweep of water beyond Fox Island and Point Defiance, Mount Rainier...
...previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from the City of Rayville without a life belt. Unable to swim, he yelled through the darkness to his mates but they could not find him. The mine blew the City of Rayville's nose off. Survivors kept bits of metal, which landed in the lifeboats, for examination to determine whether the mine was German or Italian...
...quit his post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. But the finality of the Herald's farewell spoke what most Britons and Joe Kennedy's colleagues suspected: he was leaving England for good. Friends knew he wanted to get back in the swim of U. S. politics. He had been mentioned for the job of heading the Defense Commission, a job he would like...
McCoy often describes his program as a family affair, makes frequent mention of his relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly...
...cathedral schools, a curriculum consisting of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Since then higher education has gone on to bigger and better things. Today the Harvard course catalogue lists 53 departments and nearly 1000 courses, and the only commonbond between Harvard graduates is the ability to swim 50 yards...